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  • TX: Austin council candidate released after abduction tied to anti-gang protest

    Source: Austin American-Statesman

    “Misael Ramos, an Austin City Council candidate running to represent District 1 in East Austin, was released from the Travis County Jail on Saturday evening after state troopers arrested him earlier in the day. … Jeffrey Clemmons, Ramos'[s] campaign manager, said two of Ramos’ neighbors saw him being detained by several state troopers, including officers in unmarked vehicles, while Ramos was walking his dog around 8:50 a.m. Saturday. Clemmons said the officers never showed Ramos a warrant for his arrest. … Travis County Sheriff’s Office records show that Ramos was booked into Travis County Central Booking at 9:31 a.m. Saturday on a charge of participating in a riot, a Class B misdemeanor.” [editor’s note: The “riot” was a protest over the ICE gang’s attempted murder of a DoorDash driver – TLK] (09/26/26)

    https://archive.is/56l0V

  • Spain: 87-year-old’s eviction sparks encampment in Madrid plaza to protest housing crisis

    Source: Associated Press

    “Protesters outraged by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman spent the night camped in Madrid’s historic Puerta del Sol plaza, where more people — including multigenerational families — joined them Sunday for a second day of demonstrations over Spain’s housing crisis. Tens of thousands of people marched in Madrid on Saturday to protest the eviction of María del Carmen Abascal from an apartment in the upscale Retiro neighborhood which had been her home for decades. Protesters are demanding protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud rules and a ban on evictions without alternative housing.” (09/27/26)

    https://apnews.com/article/spain-evictions-madrid-housing-protest-afee10896ccb41d324375f8f148e4804

  • White House moves to block $810 million in spending through pocket rescission

    Source: CNBC

    “The White House on Friday evening announced plans to claw back $810 million in congressionally appropriated funding, prompting criticism from lawmakers. A year ago, President Donald Trump’s administration blocked $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid through a pocket rescission, marking the first time in roughly 50 years that the president has attempted to use that authority. The controversial budget maneuver occurs when a president submits a request to Congress to block funding so close to the end of the fiscal year that the funds can expire before Congress receives the full 45-day consideration period under the law. … The rescissions would block $567 million appropriated for Health and Human Services programs for refugees, asylees and other non-citizens and $28 million for HHS research. Additional cuts target the Department of Education’s special programs for immigrant students, among other programs.” (09/26/26)

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/26/white-house-810-million-pocket-rescission.html

  • Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope

    Source: SFGate

    “The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on Friday less than three months after launching on the bold mission. Katalyst Space Technologies announced the demise of its three-armed spacecraft named Link. It reentered the atmosphere overnight, bringing the $30 million, NASA-sponsored salvage effort of the Swift Observatory to a close. Swift is expected to follow in early November as its orbit steadily sinks.” (09/25/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/private-spacecraft-falls-back-to-earth-after-22448766.php

  • South Africa: At Least 27 Killed in Two Overnight Mass Shootings

    Source: New York Times

    “At least 27 people were killed in two separate shootings in South Africa on Saturday night and early Sunday morning, adding to the toll of mass shootings in a country struggling to control violent crime. The shootings, which like other attacks in recent years came at bars or taverns, occurred near the country’s two most populous cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town, in township communities that face socioeconomic challenges. … South Africa has one of the world’s highest murder rates.” [editor’s note: And some of the world’s most restrictive victim disarmament (“gun control”) laws. How’s that working out for them? – TLK] (09/27/26)

    https://archive.is/DxKo1

  • NYC: Prostitution arrests plunge 60% along well-known stroll

    Source: New York Post

    “Scoring illegal sex along Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue has never been easier — as the number of hookers has multiplied and prostitution-related arrests have plunged by 60% along the seedy strip since soft-on-crime socialist Zohran Mamdani became mayor this year. John, a 40-year-old Manhattan horndog, said he has no problem schlepping on the subway to the notorious open-air sex bazaar — nicknamed the ‘Market of Sweethearts’ — because the women are ‘cheap’ and cops have their hands tied by lax laws and policies. … NYPD officers reported making 193 prostitution-related arrests along Roosevelt Avenue this year through Sept. 13, records show. That’s a massive 59% drop from the 468 arrests during the same period the previous year when ex-NYPD captain-turned-mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch led a major enforcement effort dubbed ‘Operation Restore Roosevelt.'” [editor’s note: The Post reports this like it’s a bad thing – TLK] (09/27/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/09/27/us-news/nypd-making-60-less-arrests-at-queens-notorious-market-of-sweethearts-strip/

  • UK: Police evacuate homes near air base used by US and detain men on suspected explosives offensives

    Source: ABC News

    “Police evacuated homes Sunday near an air base in England used by the U.S. and arrested several men over suspected explosives offenses. The Gloucestershire Police force said Sunday that residents of ‘a number of properties’ in Whelford, western England, have been taken to a nearby leisure center and that the situation is ‘contained.’ That is close to RAF Fairford, a base that American forces have used for strictly limited strikes during the war with Iran. … Police say several men have been detained on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act, and army bomb-disposal experts are examining several vehicles.” (09/27/26)

    https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/uk-police-evacuate-homes-air-base-us-detain-136793296

  • Switzerland: Voters reject stricter interpretation of neutrality

    Source: BBC News [UK state media]

    “Voters in Switzerland have overwhelmingly rejected a stricter interpretation of the country’s tradition of diplomatic neutrality. More than 70% of Swiss voters rejected proposals that would have prevented the European nation from imposing sanctions without UN approval, official results showed. The move would have also prevented Switzerland from pursuing closer ties with the Nato military alliance. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has reopened the debate around Switzerland’s centuries-old non-alignment. Moscow openly backed the initiative, which was supported by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and opposed by the federal government and all other major parties.” (09/27/26)

    https://archive.is/MZhU6

  • Trump slashes Biden-era fuel economy standards for cars

    Source: Politico

    “President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has approved new fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles, in another move meant to take aim at Biden-era policies supporting electric vehicles. … The final rule was not immediately available, and officials from the White House did not immediately respond to questions. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amplified Trump’s post on social media, adding, ‘A major victory for America’s auto workers is COMING MONDAY.’ The new regulation is expected to slash fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles by nearly one-third through model year 2031.” (09/26/26)

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/26/trump-vehicle-standards-ev-01067597

  • Texas clinic owner convicted in $26M military health fraud tied to gold-plated Cybertruck

    Source: Fox News

    “A Texas mental health clinic owner was convicted by a federal jury after prosecutors said he orchestrated a $26 million scheme to defraud the military’s health care program, using some of the proceeds to fund luxury purchases, including a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck worth more than $100,000. Kevin D. Curry, 64, of Frisco, was found guilty Thursday in federal court in Fort Worth on three counts of health care fraud, three counts of offering and paying illegal health care kickbacks and three counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property, according to the Justice Department. Federal prosecutors said Curry exploited TRICARE, the health care program serving active-duty servicemembers, retirees and their families, by billing for transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, therapy that was medically unnecessary or, in many cases, never provided.” (09/27/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-clinic-owner-convicted-26m-military-health-fraud-gold-plated-cybertruck

  • Australia: Regime summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to appear at AI inquiry

    Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

    “Australia has called for the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear before a Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence, just days after revelations that a rogue OpenAI bot had ⁠hacked the country’s health-system database. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have been sent written requests to appear at the inquiry, which is to hold public hearings in the capital, Canberra, on Thursday, a spokesperson for Senator Sarah ‌Hanson-Young of the Australian Greens party said. The inquiry is examining the potential impacts of AI and data centres on safety, data transparency, Australian communities, industries, water and energy. It is one of several state and federal inquiries into AI.” (09/27/26)

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/27/australia-summons-openai-and-anthropic-ceos-to-appear-at-ai-inquiry

  • CA: Silicon Valley congressman alleges major project is tied to Russian oligarch

    Source: SFGate

    “A Silicon Valley congressman is calling for a federal investigation into a controversial Menlo Park development, saying a Russian oligarch with alleged ties to organized crime is behind the project. U.S. Rep Sam Liccardo, a Democrat whose district covers the city, asserted in a letter Wednesday to Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the development’s land is owned by Vitaly Yusufov, a Russian whom Liccardo says has been sanctioned by Ukraine and has acted on behalf of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. He said the project’s location near tech companies raises national security concerns. Oisin Heneghan, the founder of N17 Development, the San Francisco-based developer behind the project, said in an email to SFGATE Friday that Liccardo’s allegations are ‘based on false reporting and what can only be described as NIMBY fan fiction.’” (09/25/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/liccardo-menlo-park-russia-22449265.php

  • SpaceX launches secret payload from California

    Source: United Press International

    “SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 ship Saturday morning from California with a secret mission for the U.S. military. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 7 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base for the USSF-385 mission. The rocket went in a southerly direction after launch from Space Launch Complex 4-East, according to Space Flight Now. … This mission for the U.S. Space Force is believed to be the third in a series of flights to send satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield, which is a version of a Starlink satellite for government use.” (09/26/26)

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/26/spacex-launch-secret-space-force/6701790434478/

  • US Senate again refuses to do job on Iran war

    Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    “Despite rising political anxiety over the Iran war, senators on Thursday narrowly rejected a war powers resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s military action, which has been largely blamed for the spike in gas prices and become a flashpoint in the midterm election. The Senate tally, 49-50, coming days after Trump’s bombastic address to the United Nations in which he threatened to ‘annihilate’ Iran, was likely the last chance for lawmakers to go on record about the war ahead of November. … This was the 14th time the Senate has considered a war powers resolution since Trump launched the conflict on Feb. 28.” (09/25/26)

    https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/sep/25/senate-again-rejects-war-powers-resolution/

  • International fugitive whines at UN after mass walkout

    Source: New York Times

    “Fighting for his political life back home, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel gave a pugnacious address at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, casting his nation as falsely accused of genocide and his people as indomitable fighters against terrorism and antisemitism. At times pounding the lectern and raising his voice, Mr. Netanyahu took aim at Israel’s military enemies like Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and their allied forces in Yemen and Iraq. But he also assailed Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Western European leaders he said had ‘chosen to succumb to the antisemitic mob.’ As the Israeli leader took the podium, many of the international diplomats filed out of the hall, as they have in the past, but his speech seemed tuned far more to a domestic audience than an international one.” (09/24/26)

    https://archive.is/NfHpT

  • NJ: Sherrill calls on lieutenant governor to resign over ethics report

    Source: NBC News

    “New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Thursday evening that she gave Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell ‘until tomorrow’ to resign after an investigation found he had violated state ethics and harassment policy. … The state said this month that it had hired a law firm to investigate allegations against Caldwell, a Democrat who was elected on the ticket with Sherrill last year, claiming that he had behaved inappropriately toward women. … Sherrill said Caldwell’s ‘ethical lapses persisted despite multiple warnings and trainings.’ … Lawyers for Caldwell, who has denied the allegations, said in a statement Thursday night that they ‘strongly disputed the three findings in the investigation,’ as its conclusions ‘go further than the evidence supports.'” (09/24/26)

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-jerseys-governor-calls-lieutenant-governor-resign-ethics-report-rcna599771

  • US jobless claims fall to 197,000, lowest since July

    Source: Siasat Daily [India]

    “Fewer people applied for US unemployment benefits last week, as US jobless claims remain at historically low levels as most Americans enjoy job security. The Labour Department said Thursday, September 24, that 197,000 applied for unemployment checks last week, the fewest since mid-July and down from a revised 198,000 the week before. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week ups and downs, fell to 202,250 last week from 204,000. Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, and economists watch them because they can be a sign of where the job market is headed. So far this year, claims have mostly stayed below 220,000 — historically low.” (09/24/26)

    https://www.siasat.com/us-jobless-claims-fall-to-197000-lowest-since-july-3547690/

  • Russia: Krasnodar governor declares state of emergency as drone attacks slow grain exports

    Source: Yahoo! News

    “The governor of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, a major agricultural producer, has declared a state of ‌emergency over Ukrainian drone attacks that have inhibited the export ‌of grain, a move which allows those affected to receive compensation. Both Russia and Ukraine ​have stepped up attacks on the other side’s grain vessels in the Black Sea in recent months, sending global prices higher. Regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev, announcing the state of emergency on Wednesday, said that ‘massive attacks’ on ‌logistics infrastructure had caused ⁠the suspension of port operations and disruptions to shipping in the Black Sea, the Interfax news agency reported ⁠on Thursday. Agricultural producers, he said, were unable to sell much of their yields, leading to an oversupply on the domestic grain market.” (09/24/26)

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/russias-krasnodar-region-declares-state-121937462.html

  • Starbucks to shutter 250 locations in North America

    Source: United Press International

    “Starbucks announced it will close about 250 underperforming stores in North America, about 1% of its 18,000 locations. The announcement, revealed in a letter to employees from chief operating officer Mike Grams, heralds the second major wave of Starbucks closures since Brian Niccol became CEO two years ago. … The locations to be closed have not yet been specified by the company, but a regulatory filing from the company indicates most of the stores will be shuttered before the end of fiscal 2026.” (09/24/26)

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/24/starbucks-to-close-250-stores-North-America/1941790263577/

  • Report: Hitler’s possible role in niece’s death under scrutiny after documents raise questions about alibi

    Source: CBS News

    “Newly unearthed records in a Munich archive have cast doubt on Adolf Hitler’s whereabouts at the time of his niece’s suspicious 1931 death, according to news magazine Der Spiegel. Hitler’s unusually close and controlling relationship with his niece, Geli Raubal, has long been the subject of speculation and rumor, and newspaper reports at the time suggested that Hitler may have played a role in her death. Raubal died from a gunshot wound to the chest from a pistol belonging to Hitler, in what was officially determined to be a suicide. Hitler … was away in the city of Nuremberg that day, giving him what appeared to be a strong alibi. But according to an article in Der Spiegel, historian Harald Sandner recently discovered documents in archives in Munich casting doubt on that account — and raising questions about whether Nazi sympathizers in the police may have falsified records to protect Hitler.” (09/24/26)

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hitler-role-niece-death-new-documents-questions-alibi-report/


  • How Murdering Suspected Drug Smugglers Became the New Normal

    Source: Reason
    by Jacob Sullum

    “A year after launching his explosive antidrug campaign, President Donald Trump routinely rains death on alleged cocaine couriers.” (for publication 11/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/09/26/how-murdering-suspected-drug-smugglers-became-the-new-normal/

  • “Easier and more convenient”

    Source: The Price of Liberty
    by Nathn Barton

    “The entire AI craziness is, we believe, directly tied to the entire Data Center controversy. Whether the opposition to massive data centers is being pushed (or at least triggered) by the CCP (or Russia, or the Iranians, or ‘just’ Soros and Bill Gates) or is the latest tactic by the Woke, environists, and Luddites, it is clearly now a significant issue in thousands of communities. As well as an incredible display of cognitive or mental dissonance. You use AI, you use your smart phone, you spend all your time on social media and streaming movies and television series, but you are totally against the infrastructure and consumption of power and water necessary to furnish you those wonderful things. Of course, this is again (as with so many things) not new.” (09/25/26)

    https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/09/25/easier-and-more-convenient/

  • AI Doomers Don’t Want to Stop AI; They Want to Control It

    Source: American Greatness
    by Jordan Schachtel

    “The debate over America’s AI future is usually framed in a very specific way. In the tech and policy world, the common framing is as simple as a battle between those who want to build AI systems as fast as possible and those who want to slow it down. More accurately, the fight over AI is about who gets to control America’s AI future. On one side there are the AI Doomers, most of whom want to capture and control the technology for their peer networks. On the other side are those who believe that facilitating a free and open playing field is the best way for this technology to bring about human flourishing. AI Doomers are split over what the future looks like, and they surely have internal squabbles about how to navigate the narrative war, but they fundamentally agree about the idea that they should be the ones in charge.” (09/25/26)

    https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/25/ai-doomers-dont-want-to-stop-ai-they-want-to-control-it/

  • The Why of Food Emancipation

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Jeffrey A Tucker

    “As incredible as it seems, many people today haven’t thought at all about food production, any more than driving gives us consciousness of car factories or wearing clothes makes us aware of cotton fields and robotic looms. When asked, people just assume food as we know it comes from some factory out there somewhere and who cares anyway? … an entire way of life – a way toward health, well-being, and happiness – has been stolen from us. Not neglected, not outcompeted, but literally forced out of existence. This happened not by market forces as such, not by some impersonal mind of history, but by a labyrinth of regulations, mandates, taxes, controls, subsidies, and monopoly-creating controls, all conspiring to keep the way of life of our ancestors from returning.” (09/26/26)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-why-of-food-emancipation/

  • Tech Plutocrats Cannot Lead Us Into A Healthy Future

    Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
    by Caitlin Johnstone

    “Tech plutocrats are the high-budget expression of the ‘everyone is twelve now’ theory. You wanna go to Mars? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think you can merge your consciousness with machinery and unlock the key to immortality? Hell yeah my twelve year-old homie. You’re gonna invent an Artificial Superintelligence God who will solve all our problems? Bless your twelve year-old heart. Their visions for the future of humanity are never particularly wise or intelligent. It’s just a bunch of drugged-up rich guys using their vast fortunes to chart a course for our species that would sound totally awesome to the average preadolescent boy.” (09/26/26)

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/09/26/tech-plutocrats-cannot-lead-us-into-a-healthy-future/

  • American Jesus: Christian Revival and “Casinofication”

    Source: CounterPunch
    by David S D’Amato

    “As Hannah Hartley writes this month for the Rumi Forum’s Center for Faith Identity & Globalization, ‘Christianity is not growing among Gen Z in any meaningful aggregate sense. It is consolidating, becoming smaller in total membership, more male, more politically conservative, and more legible as a vehicle for political identity.’ The clickbait mirage of religious revival has obscured these very real trends for years, forestalling a more relevant and important conversation about the role Christianity plays in American politics and culture. And that conversation is worth having for several reasons, not least of which is that it underscores the deep ambivalence and ambiguity of Jesus as a figure in our cultural history.” (09/25/26)

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/25/american-jesus-christian-revival-and-casinofication/

  • Republican candidates can’t escape the stink of Trumpism

    Source: Los Angeles Times
    by LZ Granderson

    “‘Daddy’s back,’ is what Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds proudly said in January 2025. Which is why removing the president’s picture from the Donalds gubernatorial campaign website, as he reportedly did earlier this month, won’t remove the smell of Trumpism. Not mentioning the president’s name in television ads or suddenly being against the war in Iran that Trump started — which is what Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers is attempting to do in Michigan — will not get Trump’s thiols off of his skin. Nor will deleting the phrase ‘Trump-endorsed candidate’ from your social media bio …. those men were endorsed by the president. Each of them knew what he smelled like. Each of them agreed to smell like him … when it was politically advantageous. Now they can’t get the Trump stink off of them fast enough no matter how many times they lather, rinse and repeat.” (09/25/26)

    https://archive.is/6VDsl

  • Europe’s New ASEAN Deal

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Jake Scott

    “In Manila, on Tuesday, September 22, the European Union and the Philippines agreed on the substance of a free trade agreement, one that revealed the shape of Europe’s strategy in Southeast Asia. The deal, giving Philippine exporters permanent preferential access to the EU market of roughly 450 million consumers, follows agreements already in force with Singapore and Vietnam, an Indonesian pact awaiting approval, and Thai talks entering what Bangkok hopes to be their final round. Together, these agreements tie the EU, already the third-largest trading partner for the ASEAN bloc, and its largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI), into several of the largest economies in the region—but not the bloc as a whole. The EU is building its Southeast Asian relationship nation by nation, undermining the prospects of a bloc-to-bloc agreement that both sides still profess to want.” (09/25/26)

    https://fee.org/articles/europes-new-asean-deal/

  • Farmers Voted for This

    Source: The Dispatch
    by Kevin D Williamson

    “American farmers rely on imports for many of their most critical inputs—fertilizer, chemicals, machinery—and rely on exports to large overseas markets such as China for a big part of their profits, and, as such, conducting a series of trade wars fought with tariffs is just about the worst possible economic policy for them as a group. Naturally, American farmers and farming communities keep voting roughly two-to-one for trade wars—a vote for Donald Trump, the guy who insists that ‘trade wars are good and easy to win,’ is a vote for trade wars. Farmers voted for trade wars, and trade wars they got. And—surprise!—agriculture is in something like a full-blown recession, with farm incomes projected to decline by a whopping 5.5 percent in real terms this year. Farm bankruptcies are up 46 percent since 2024, and some 15,000 farming operations went dark last year.” (09/25/26)

    https://thedispatch.com/article/farmers-republicans-trade-war-trump/

  • US medical schools have gone DEI-crazy, with deadly results

    Source: New York Post
    by staff

    “Racism plagues American health care: reverse racism. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division just brought another case against a top medical school for blatant discrimination against white and Asian applicants: Blacks applying to the University of California at San Francisco’s med school get admitted at almost 13 times the rate of similarly qualified white applicants. Black and Hispanic students the school admitted from 2023 to ’25 averaged lower test scores and undergraduate grades than the average white and Asian applicant the school rejected. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s letter blasting UCSF follows similar ones to UCLA, UCSD and Yale; virtually every other US med school is likely as bad, but she’s building the evidence before she strikes. The University of Pennsylvania offers a path for students at eight other colleges to enter medical school without taking the MCAT at all — and five of the eight are historically black colleges.” (09/26/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/09/26/opinion/us-medical-schools-have-gone-dei-crazy-with-deadly-results/

  • Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by Greg Sargent

    “Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the ‘Office of Remigration’? In case you’re unfamiliar with the term ‘remigration,’ it’s typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion of nonwhite immigrants, done in the quest to ethnically cleanse ‘Western’ countries. It’s mostly a European term, but Trump himself employed the phrase ‘reverse migration’ last year, mainstreaming ‘remigration’ on the American right—and true to its name, the office now helps facilitate mass removals in some very dark and sordid ways. So let’s lay down a marker: If Democrats take over the House and/or the Senate, they should make it their business next year to ensure that this agency faces truly withering scrutiny. As many Americans as possible should know what their government is doing in their name.” (09/25/26)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-miller-is-paying-monstrous

  • Why Does Government Still Run Like a Commodore 64?

    Source: RealClearPolitics
    by Anthony Constantino

    “America’s government has become a masterclass in deliberate, costly failure. You can order dinner, hail a car, transfer money across the country, trash a pundit, praise a friend, and run a business from your phone in seconds. The private sector figured this out years ago. Yet the second you deal with your own government, you step into a dysfunctional time machine: endless paperwork, overloaded websites that crash, multi-hour hold times, lines that stretch for blocks, and approvals that crawl at the speed of 1985. … The private sector rebuilds itself constantly. Yet government clings to legacy processes written for a slower century. Why? Because broken systems protect power.” (09/25/26)

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/09/25/why_does_government_still_run_like_a_commodore_64_154526.html

  • Cheating with Democracy

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “Changing polling places always occurs, every election year, and the biggest changes in this regard have been in the eight states (and D.C.) that have established mail-in only voting. Talk about a change of polling places! And then there is the purging of voter rolls of non-citizen, non-resident, and non-existent voters! Who could complain about that? Only unserious people. Like Democrats. Like Kamala Harris. And those who seek to game elections.” (09/25/26)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/09/25/cheating-w-democracy/

  • Progressivism’s Imposter Syndrome

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Elizabeth Grace Matthew

    “To a leftist influencer, almost anything is better than being exposed as a fraud.” (09/25/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/progressivisms-imposter-syndrome/

  • NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Daughter to Failing Public School

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Corey A DeAngelis

    “The Project 1619 journalist said parents should stick with struggling, segregated schools. Her daughter isn’t the only one who was cheated by that ideological choice.” (09/25/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/nyts-nikole-hannah-jones-regrets-sending-her-daughter-to-failing-public-school/

  • Trump’s Diversionary Assault on the First Amendment

    Source: Common Dreams
    by Steven J Harper

    “President Donald Trump is in trouble and he knows it: He promised ‘no more foreign wars’, but started a war with Iran that he has lost. He promised to tame inflation, but tariffs and his war of choice have made it worse. He promised to deport only the ‘worst of the worst’ illegal immigrants. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement has terrorized American cities as agents sometimes arrested, detained, wounded, or killed US citizens. He promised to make the United States the most respected country in the world, but he has destroyed America’s reputation and alienated its allies. He calls himself the best president in history, but his approval rating has dropped to the mid-30s — his lowest ever and approaching President Richard Nixon’s final approval rating of 24% shortly before his resignation in 1974.” (09/26/26)

    https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-first-amendment-distraction

  • Mainstream Economics: Money as Medium of Exchange, Unit of Account, and Store of Value

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Joshua Mawhorter

    “Before a good can be considered money, it must first serve as a medium of exchange and become so through a market process of production, subjective value, and exchange. This necessarily also provides the basis for money to be a meaningful unit of account and a ‘store of value’ (though the term is not fully appropriate). The Mengerian theory of money, refined by Mises and Rothbard, has been extrapolated more fully elsewhere; however, in brief, it posits that money emerges spontaneously from barter as market participants increasingly prefer more marketable goods as media of exchange, eventually producing a generally-accepted medium of exchange. These goods tended to have certain characteristics—scarcity, divisibility, portability, durability, recognizability, fungibility, high value per weight, etc.” (09/25/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/mainstream-economics-money-medium-exchange-unit-account-and-store-value

  • Affordable Broadband is a Local Victory

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Alex Rosado

    “Competition, deregulation, and innovation are giving consumers faster internet at lower prices.” (09/25/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/affordable-broadband-is-a-local-victory/

  • The Constitution of Liberty in the Era of AI

    Source: EconLog
    by Paul Dragos Aligica

    “We are living through a great social transformation comparable to the industrial revolution. What sets it apart is not only its magnitude, but its multidimensional convergence: technological, economic, political, and epistemic shifts unfolding simultaneously and reinforcing one another. This shift places growing strain on inherited political cleavages and ideological frameworks, many forged under very different technological and institutional conditions. Mega-trends such as digitalization, artificial intelligence, platform economies, biotechnology, and the reconfiguration of global networks are not just reshaping production and exchange; they are redefining the conditions under which governance operates. The result is a systemic transformation that penetrates the foundations of contemporary political and economic orders. At the core of this transformation is a radical expansion of the institutional possibility frontier.” (09/25/26)

    https://www.econlib.org/econlog/the-constitution-of-liberty-in-the-era-of-ai

  • Scholia for a Free Society

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Itxu Diaz

    “The dialectical battle between traditionalists and lovers of liberty has given us brilliant debates over the past few centuries, but also countless missed opportunities. The battle for freedom must be fought continuously, because whenever it is not being fought, freedom retreats; it is always under threat. We see this often these days. In confronting that threat, beyond the work of the usual figures, it may be useful to reconsider the work of those who called themselves ‘authentic reactionaries’ and who, in reality, also offered fruitful arguments in defense of freedom.” (09/25/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/scholia-for-a-free-society/

  • Bolivia has rejected socialism and is open for business

    Source: New York Post
    by Rodrigo Paz Pereira

    “Bolivia is beginning a new chapter. For nearly two decades, my country was governed by the Movement Toward Socialism. That period reshaped Bolivia’s economy, institutions, and relationship with the United States. Today, my government is taking a different direction: rebuilding confidence, strengthening institutions, opening the economy to investment, and creating more room for private enterprise and entrepreneurship. When I took office, Bolivia’s Central Bank had only $51 million in reserves. Ten months later, reserves had risen to close to $1.2 billion, and our objective is to continue rebuilding them. Inflation remains high, fuel shortages have tested our people, and the work ahead is difficult. But the direction is clear: Bolivia is putting its economic house in order. ” (09/26/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-paz-bolivia-rejected-socialism-open-business

  • The Socialist Chic: Almost Half of Americans Now Hold Positive Views

    Source: Jonathan Turley Blog
    by Jonathan Turley

    “Karl Marx believed that ‘Democracy is the road to socialism’. Socialists seem to have found a generation of dupes to buy their ahistorical, fanciful pitch. A new poll shows 43% now have a positive view of socialism. An astonishing 65% of Democrats have a positive view. Socialism is now the rage on the left. Like clothing styles, if you wait long enough, socialism tends to come back into style with generations with no memory of past failures. However, it is an astonishing trend in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth that outlasted a history cluttered with the broken failures of socialist and communist systems. A new slick packaging of socialism has emerged with leaders such as Zohran Mamdani offering to teach people of the ‘warmth of collectivism’. The Democratic Socialists of America are enticing voters with narratives like ‘Imagine the end of capitalism’.” (09/25/26)

    https://jonathanturley.org/2026/09/25/the-socialist-chic-almost-half-of-americans-now-hold-positive-views-of-socialism/

  • America’s Arsenal: While Supplies Last

    Source: Antiwar.com
    by Nolan Denaro

    “American troops at bases across the Middle East have tragically been killed by Iranian strikes, as the military is forced to ration the remaining stockpile of defensive weapons. Just days into the war, America’s client-states in the Gulf were said to have depleted years worth of munitions. In the months of conflict that followed these dire reports, the effects of what [Pat] Buchanan called ‘imperial overstretch’ were being felt. Bases faced an onslaught of Iranian missiles and drones. Damage was so severe that many will likely not be returned to by the U.S. military. A chaotic withdrawal, of sorts. The American regional order in the Middle East is collapsing in real time.” (09/25/26)

    https://original.antiwar.com/nolan_denaro/2026/09/24/americas-arsenal-while-supplies-last

  • The US kill count in Iran makes the phrase ‘precision strikes’ absurd

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Martin Di Caro

    “Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Azmat Khan says the Pentagon still obfuscates, lies, and manipulates the truth about civilian deaths in war.” (09/25/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/precision-strikes-iran-civilians/

  • Freedom, Markets, and Income Inequality

    Source: Free Association
    by Sheldon Richman

    “For good or ill, individuals differ in all sorts of ways, many of them relevant to their ability to please us, the consumers. No need to stop the presses—we all know this. Yet many intellectuals want a social system premised on the principle that people are ‘equal’ not as a moral/legal presumption, but equal in intelligence, talent, energy, time preference, conscientiousness, cooperativeness, etc.—and therefore deserving of more or less equal incomes, outcomes, and opportunities. Anything short of their ideal (‘disparate outcomes’), the egalitarians tell us, must be chalked up to past or present injustice (racism, for example) and privilege, requiring coercive government intervention. That’s wokeism. People who are honest with themselves know those intellectuals are worse than wrong and that the record of their ideal in practice has been bloody beyond belief.” (09/25/26)

    https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-freedom-markets-and-income-inequality

  • After Missouri, Mid-Decade Redistricting May Die a Natural Death

    Source: The American Prospect
    by Gabrielle Gurley

    “On Monday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals further confounded Missouri’s ongoing mid-decade redistricting debacle. The three-member federal panel sided with a lower federal court and directed the state to use a new map gerrymandered in 2025 and specially designed to propel Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver into retirement—part of President Trump’s effort to secure the largest possible advantages for Republicans in the midterm elections. In early September, the Missouri Supreme Court had unanimously ruled that the 2025 map could not be used without first being approved in a voter referendum, especially since People Not Politicians, the Missouri referendum advocacy group backing the map question, had met all of the constitutional requirements to secure a slot on the ballot.” (09/25/26)

    https://prospect.org/2026/09/25/after-missouri-mid-decade-redistricting-may-die-a-natural-death/

  • On Iran, Republicans Want to Have It Both Ways

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Luke Nicastro

    “When J.D. Vance was elected to the Senate from Ohio in 2022, he won his race by a healthy 6-point margin. Four years later, his successor in that seat—Sen. John Husted (R-OH)—is down by between 4 and 8 points, depending on the poll. Midterms are always hard for the party in power, and GOP candidates this year face a number of headwinds. But let’s be honest: It’s the war, stupid. Voters in Ohio, like voters across the country, are furious at paying more for gas (and everything else) because the president got us into an unwinnable Mideast conflict at the behest of a foreign country. They’re tired of bearing the costs, and they’re tired of being lied to. So Husted has sought to distance himself from this debacle.” (09/25/26)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/on-iran-republicans-want-to-have-it-both-ways/

  • Assimilation Is No Solution If Success Is the Problem

    Source: Gideon’s Substack
    by Noah Millman

    “How could anyone possibly object to this image? You want immigrants to work hard and play by the rules? These guys managed to get into the flagship campus of the University of Texas. You want them to assimilate to American culture? These guys are all wearing their school colors, roaring their excitement at their football team’s amazing victory. Several are wearing cowboy hats. If you asked an A.I. for an image that would reinforce the view that South Asian immigration is nothing to worry about, this would be the image it would create. Yet this is the image Bo French used to argue that ‘the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined,’ said problem being ‘Americans’ being displaced by ‘foreigners.'” (09/24/26)

    https://gideons.substack.com/p/assimilation-is-no-solution-if-success

  • The Slippery Constitutionality of Open Primaries

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Robert G Natelson

    “Since the early days of the American Republic, political parties have been vehicles through which people of modest means can participate effectively in politics. Like churches, families, associations, and corporations, parties are mediating organizations between the individual and government. And like other mediating organizations, parties have come under fierce attack from the left. One form of attack has been promotion of state election laws allowing non-party members to vote for party nominees. But on June 30, the Supreme Court issued a case that brought it one step closer to ruling that such laws violate the Constitution’s First Amendment, as incorporated against the states by the Fourteenth.” (09/24/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/the-slippery-constitutionality-of-open-primaries/

  • “Blue Wave” or Not, Expect Business as Usual After the Midterms

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Thomas L Knapp

    “All year we’ve heard predictions of a ‘blue wave’ in the midterms, with Democrats taking majorities in both houses of Congress. As of this writing, most forecasts I’ve consulted say that there’s a good chance of a Democratic House come January, but that the Republicans will likely hang on to the Senate. My own forecast is ‘don’t get your hopes up for substantial change no matter how the midterms turn out.’ That’s just not how American government works. Or at least that’s not how American government USUALLY works.” (09/24/26)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20908

  • Insult a cop or city employee in Montreal? Prepare to pay up.

    Source: Expression
    by Sarah McLaughlin

    “What, exactly, counts as an insult? For Montrealers, this is not just a hypothetical question about the limits of civility and good taste. In Canada’s second-most populous metropolis, the city council just banned insults to municipal employees — police officers included — and offending parties could now pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for saying the wrong thing to the wrong city worker. If that wasn’t bad enough, the new rules don’t even bother to define what is an ‘insult’ or what speech is ‘offensive.'” (09/24/26)

    https://expression.fire.org/p/insult-a-cop-or-city-employee-in

  • The DSA’s Extreme Platform Is Bad for Liberalism and Democrats

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by Matt Johnson

    “Democrats often complain about infighting on the left and argue the party must widen its tent, but figures like Chevalier and organizations like the DSA actually shrink it: they turn off mainstream voters, undermine the anti-Trump coalition’s claim to uphold liberal values, and shift the conversation away from Trump’s disastrous approval ratings toward a movement that legitimately strikes many Americans as weird and menacing. The Democratic Party is the anti-Trump coalition’s single largest vehicle for beating Trump, and handing MAGA ammunition against it is a huge mistake.” (09/24/26)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-dsas-extreme-platform-is-bad

  • IRS went after honest landowners; time to end this tax nightmare

    Source: Fox News
    by Stephen Moore

    “The IRS recently did something federal agencies almost never do: admit their approach wasn’t working. They conceded that the approach to the Conservation Easement program tax assessments is flawed and often unfair. In a press release last month, the IRS rightly stopped its assault — at least for now — on more than a thousand separate groups nationwide, comprised of about 250,000 individuals, who have participated in land conservation easements. The agency decided to withdraw its own arbitrary deadlines under its punitive settlement initiative for these donations that taxpayers, relying on qualified appraisals and professional advice, believed complied with federal law. This longstanding program provides tax incentives for people who have put hundreds of thousands of acres of pristine forest, ranch, and farmland into a ‘conservation easement’ — preventing it from ever being developed.” (09/23/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-moore-irs-honest-landowners-time-end-tax-nightmare

  • Half the Public Wants To Pause AI. Would Regulation Actually Make It Safer?

    Source: Reason
    by Reem Ibrahim

    “When Altman and other AI leaders ask for government intervention, the possibility of regulatory capture cannot be dismissed. The companies calling most loudly for AI regulation are also among those best equipped to comply with it. Licensing regimes, mandatory audits, reporting requirements, and expensive safety standards impose fixed costs that established firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can absorb more easily than smaller competitors. Altman has urged Congress to consider licensing or registration requirements. That does not mean industry warnings about AI risk are disingenuous, but advocating for regulation does allow these executives to present themselves as responsible stewards of a dangerous technology while also supporting rules that could simultaneously raise barriers to entry and entrench their position in the market.” (09/24/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/09/24/half-the-public-wants-to-pause-ai-would-regulation-actually-make-it-safer/

  • Corporate Welfare Is Britain’s Blind Spot

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Alan Hibben

    “Britain’s political class loves to talk about ‘reforming welfare,’ but everyone knows the limits of that ambition. Voter Welfare—the £333.7 billion the state is forecast to transfer from taxpayers to households in 2025–26—is politically untouchable. A population brought up on free cake is unlikely to vote for the plate being removed, at least until it stares a debt tragedy square in the face. But there is another kind of welfare that receives far less attention and may actually be fixable: Rent-Seeking Welfare, or what is more bluntly called corporate welfare elsewhere. Unlike pensioners, corporations don’t vote—and British households don’t own many shares directly. In theory, this should make reform easier. In practice, the obstacle is not ideology but something more basic: the Government cannot see what it is trying to reform.” (09/24/26)

    https://fee.org/articles/corporate-welfare-is-britains-blind-spot/